How old do you have to be to take SATs?

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Originally posted by: mugsywwiii

OK, explain how you leanred more from a Pascal course than any class you took at a college age... The language isn't exactly the most useful these days, so was it mostly theory?

There was a decent amount of theory in it but it wasn't *mostly* theory. Discrete structures class I would say covered a lot more material (totally not language specific) but > 95% of it I already knew, most of it from MEGSSS math classes in 6th-9th grade, some from already having a programming job.

mee987 brings up a good point -- this was the first structured programming course I took, where I unlearned all the bad habits from learning Applesoft BASIC when I was 8.

The C course taught as part of comp. eng. (not comp sci) are very superficial, and in the entire course we wrote 8 programs none of them more than 20-30 lines. They went more in depth than the C course in both Fortran (Numeric Methods or something like that) and LISP (AI class); how often do you use those IRL?...

I learned C/C++ on the job, translating pascal stuff to C++.

 

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I took it in 8th grade to see if I could get into IMSA (Illinois Math and Science Academy, glad now that I didn't). I scored a 1300 something, never took it again.